Danish Folketing election, 1945

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Danish Folketing election, 1945
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All 149 seats to the Folketing
75 seats were needed for a majority

 First partySecond partyThird party
  Hans hedtoft.jpg Knud-kristensen.jpg Christmas Moller.PNG
Leader Hans Hedtoft Knud Kristensen Christmas Møller
Party Social Democrats Venstre Conservative People's
Last election66 seats, 44.5%28 seats, 18.7%31 seats, 21.0%
Seats won483826
Seat changeDecrease2.svg18Increase2.svg10Decrease2.svg5
Popular vote671,755479,158373,688
Percentage32.8%23.4%18.2%
 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
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Leader Aksel Larsen Jørgen Jørgensen Arne Sørensen
Party Communists Social Liberals Danish Unity
Last electionbanned13 seats, 8.7%3 seats, 2.2%
Seats won18114
Seat changeIncrease2.svg18Decrease2.svg2Increase2.svg1
Popular vote255,236167,07363,760
Percentage12.5%8.1%3.1%
 Seventh party
 
Leader Oluf Pedersen
Party Justice
Last election2 seats, 1.6%
Seats won3
Seat changeIncrease2.svg1
Popular vote38,459
Percentage1.9%
Prime Minister before election

Vilhelm Buhl
Social Democrats

Prime Minister-elect

Knud Kristensen
Venstre

Venstre 1945 election material ("Venstre has good cards to hand") Venstre1945.jpg
Venstre 1945 election material ("Venstre has good cards to hand")

Folketing elections were held alongside Landsting elections in Denmark on 30 October 1945, [1] except in the Faroe Islands where they were held on 20 November. The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 48 of the 149 seats. Voter turnout was 86.3% in Denmark proper and 57.3% in the Faroes. [2]

Folketing Parliament of Denmark

The Folketing, also known as the Danish Parliament in English, is the unicameral national parliament (legislature) of Denmark. Established in 1849, until 1953 the Folketing was the lower house of a bicameral parliament, called the Rigsdag; the upper house was Landstinget. It meets in Christiansborg Palace, on the islet of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen.

Denmark constitutional monarchy in Europe

Denmark, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a Nordic country and the southernmost of the Scandinavian nations. Denmark lies southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and is bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark also comprises two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark proper consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand, Funen and the North Jutlandic Island. The islands are characterised by flat, arable land and sandy coasts, low elevation and a temperate climate. Denmark has a total area of 42,924 km2 (16,573 sq mi), land area of 42,394 km2 (16,368 sq mi), and the total area including Greenland and the Faroe Islands is 2,210,579 km2 (853,509 sq mi), and a population of 5.8 million.

Faroe Islands Autonomus constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark

The Faroe Islands, or the Faeroe Islands—a North Atlantic archipelago located 200 miles (320 km) north-northwest of the United Kingdom and about halfway between Norway and Iceland—are an autonomous country of the Kingdom of Denmark. Total area is about 1,400 square kilometres (540 sq mi) with a population of 50,322 in October 2017.

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Results

Denmark

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Social Democratic Party 671,75532.848–18
Venstre 479,15823.438+10
Conservative People's Party 373,68818.226–5
Communist Party of Denmark 255,23612.518New
Danish Social Liberal Party 167,0738.111–2
Danish Unity 63,7603.14+1
Justice Party of Denmark 38,4591.93+1
Independents550.000
Invalid/blank votes6,131–––
Total2,055,3151001480
Source: Nohlen & Stöver
Popular vote
A
 
32.78%
D
 
23.38%
C
 
18.24%
K
 
12.46%
B
 
8.15%
R
 
3.11%
E
 
1.88%
Others
 
0.00%

Faroe Islands

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Independent (People's Party)3,99046.210
Social Democratic Party-Self-Government Party 2,52129.200
Independent (Union Party)2,12724.600
Invalid/blank votes12–––
Total8,65010010
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

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References

  1. ↑ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p524 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p540
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